| French Alpine glaciers in retreat Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, scientists reporting at a conference say. |
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 Polar bear 'cannibalism' picturedA photojournalist snaps an image of cannibalism among polar bears - a situation that may be becoming more common as sea ice dwindles. |
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| VIDEO: Chile glacier record retreat footage Researchers in Chile release time-lapse footage of the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia. |
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| Floods and strong winds hit Cumbria Reports of vehicles stuck in water near Windermere and Troutbeck, and drivers warned of extremely poor conditions. Parts of Cumbria have been hit by localised flooding as high winds blew in from Scotland, and flood warnings were in place on many rivers.The Highways Agency advised drivers in the north-east, north-west and Yorkshire to check the weather forecast and road conditions before they travel because of the strong winds. It has issued an amber alert for high-sided vehicles, caravans and motorbikes.Heavy rain led to flooding in south Cumbria. Cumbria police said they had received a number of reports of vehicles stuck in water around the tourist areas of Windermere and Troutbeck.Sections of the A591 at Ambleside and Windermere were closed because of the flooding, along with a section of the A592 at Troutbeck Bridge. |
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| Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice In the final episode of Frozen Planet, David Attenborough travels to the Arctic and Antarctic to observe the effects of climate change |
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| Drought risk high for England next summer, government warns Environment secretary Caroline Spelman calls on water companies and public to plan now for 2012 water shortage. Drought will almost certainly hit parts of England next summer unless there is sustained rainfall this winter, according to the environment secretary, Caroline Spelman.Her warning came on Thursday as South East Water applied to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for a drought order to help refill Ardingly reservoir, where the level of usable water is now just 12%, to secure supplies for East and West Sussex.Spelman warned that water companies and the public needed to plan now for a potential drought in 2012. |
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| Hidden Contours of Antarctica Depicted in Map of 'Ice-free' Continent Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey have published the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica's landscape would look like without its thick covering of ice, showing that large portions of the frozen Click to enlargeBEDMAP/BASAn 'ice-free' Antarctica continent actually rest on the sea bed rather than on land. Using data collected by aerial flights, satellite technology, and research ships over 50 years, British researchers were able to illustrate mountain peaks that are the size of the European Alps but are hidden below thousands of feet of ice. Less than 1 percent of the continent's rock base is currently visible above the ice, which is three miles thick in places. |
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| It's "Extremely Likely That at Least 74% of Observed Warming Since 1950? Was Manmade; It's Highly Likely All of It Was Back in 2009, NASA's Gavin Schmidt was asked, "what percentage of global warming is due to human causes vs. natural causes?" His answer: Over the last 40 or so years, natural drivers would have caused cooling, and so the warming there has been ... caused by a combination of human drivers and some degree of internal variability. I would judge the maximum amplitude of the internal variability to be roughly 0.1 deg C over that time period, and so given the warming of ~0.5 deg C, I'd say somewhere between 80% to 120% of the warming. |
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| WMO: 2011 Is Warmest La Niña Year on Record and Science "Proves Unequivocally" It's "Due to Human Activities" Global temperatures in 2011 are currently the tenth highest on record and are higher than any previous year with a La Niña event, which has a relative cooling influence. The 13 warmest years have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2011 was the second lowest on record, and its volume was the lowest. "Our role is to provide the scientific knowledge to inform action by decision makers," said [World Meteorological Organization] Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. "Our science is solid and it proves unequivocally that the world is warming and that this warming is due to human activities," he said. |
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| Highs winds leave thousands without power in California LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heavy winds returned to the Los Angeles area early on Saturday as over 100,000 homes and businesses lost power, due to fallen trees and other damage from an ongoing windstorm. |
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| Global Temperature News There are two interesting pieces of news on the global temperature evolution. First, today a paper by [Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf] was published by Environmental Research Letters, providing a new analysis of the five available global (land+ocean) temperature time series. Foster and Rahmstorf tease out and remove the short-term variability due to ENSO, solar cycles and volcanic eruptions and find that after this adjustment all five time series match much more closely than before (see graph). That's because the variability differs between the series, for example El Niño events show up about twice as strongly in the satellite data as compared to the surface temperatures. |
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| Coral reefs in warming seas Disease outbreaks are often associated with hot weather. Because many bacteria typically multiply more rapidly in warmer conditions, it's a commonly held notion that warm-weather outbreaks are a straightforward consequence of greater numbers of the microbial culprit. |
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| Biodiversity and climate change - from bad to worse (PhysOrg.com) -- A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands sets out our current knowledge of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the latest special edition of the scientific journal Pacific Conservation Biology. |
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| Rapid retreat of Chile glacier captured in images (AP) -- Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia. |
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| Tropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica Accelerated melting of two fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain Antarctic ice into the Amundsen Sea Embayment is likely the result, in part, of an increase in sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according to new University of Washington research. |
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